Electronic Structure of a Hydrogenic Acceptor Impurity in Semiconductor Nano-structures
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1 Nanoscale Res Lett (7) 2:4 6 DOI.7/s NANO EXPRESS Electronic Structure of a Hydrogenic Acceptor Impurity in Semiconductor Nano-structures Shu-Shen Li Æ Jian-Bai Xia Received: 7 September 7 / Accepted: 2 September 7 / Published online: 9 October 7 to the authors 7 Abstract The electronic structure and binding energy of a hydrogenic acceptor impurity in 2,, and -dimensional semiconductor nano-structures (i.e. quantum well (QW), quantum well wire (QWW), and quantum dot (QD)) are studied in the framework of effective-mass envelopefunction theory. The results show that () the energy levels monotonically decrease as the quantum confinement sizes increase; (2) the impurity energy levels decrease more slowly for QWWs and QDs as their sizes increase than for QWs; (3) the changes of the acceptor binding energies are very complex as the quantum confinement size increases; (4) the binding energies monotonically decrease as the acceptor moves away from the nano-structures center; () as the symmetry decreases, the degeneracy is lifted, and the first binding energy level in the QD splits into two branches. Our calculated results are useful for the application of semiconductor nano-structures in electronic and photoelectric devices. Introduction Impurity states play a very important role in the semiconductor revolution. Hydrogenic impurities, including donors S.-S. Li J.-B. Xia CCAST (World Lab.), P. O. Box 873, Beijing 8, P.R. China S.-S. Li (&) J.-B. Xia State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 92, Beijing 83, P.R. China sslee@red.semi.ac.cn and acceptors, have been widely studied in theoretical and experimental approaches []. Recently, Mahieu et al. investigated the energy and symmetry of Zn and Be dopant-induced acceptor states in GaAs using cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at low temperatures [2]. The ground and first excited states were found to have a non-spherical symmetry. In particular, the first excited acceptor state has Td symmetry. Bernevig and Zhang proposed a spin manipulation technique based entirely on electric fields applied to acceptor states in p-type semiconductors with spin-orbit coupling. While interesting on its own, the technique could also be used to implement fault-resilient holonomic quantum computing [3]. Loth et al. studied tunneling transport through the depletion layer under a GaAs surface with a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope. Their findings suggest that the complex band structure causes the observed anisotropies connected with the zinc blende symmetry [4]. Kundrotas et al. investigated the optical transitions in Be-doped GaAs/AlAs multiple quantum wells with various widths and doping levels []. The fractional dimensionality model was extended to describe free-electron acceptor (free hole-donor) transitions in a quantum well (QW). The measured photoluminescence spectra from the samples were interpreted within the framework of this model, and acceptor-impurity induced effects in the photoluminescence line shapes from multiple quantum wells of different widths were demonstrated. Buonocore et al. presented results on the ground-state binding energies for donor and acceptor impurities in a deformed quantum well wire (QWW) [6]. The impurity effective-mass Schrödinger equation was reduced to a onedimensional equation with an effective potential containing
2 Nanoscale Res Lett (7) 2:4 6 both the Coulomb interaction and the effects of the wire surface irregularities through the boundary conditions. Studying the ground-state wave functions for different positions of the impurity along the wire axis, they found that there are wire deformation geometries for which the impurity wave function is localized either on the wire deformation or on the impurity, or even on both. For simplicity, they only considered hard wall boundary conditions. Lee et al. calculated the magnetic-field dependence of low-lying spectra of a single-electron magnetic quantum ring and dot, formed by inhomogeneous magnetic fields using the numerical diagonalization scheme [7]. The effects of on-center acceptor and donor impurities were also considered. In the presence of an acceptor impurity, transitions in the orbital angular momentum were found for both the magnetic quantum ring and the magnetic quantum dot when the magnetic field was varied. Galiev and Polupanov calculated the energy levels and oscillator strengths from the ground state to the odd excited states of an acceptor located at the center of a spherical quantum dot (QD) in the effective mass approximation [8]. They also used an infinite potential barrier model. Using variational envelope functions, Janiszewski and Suffczynski computed the energy levels and oscillator strengths for transitions between the lowest states of an acceptor located at the center of a spherical QD with a finite potential barrier in the effective mass approximation [9]. Climente et al. calculated the spectrum of a Mn ion in a p-type InAs quantum disk in a magnetic field as a function of the number of holes described by the Luttinger-Kohn Hamiltonian []. For simplicity, they placed the acceptor at the center of the disk. In this paper, we will study the electronic structures and binding energy of a hydrogenic acceptor impurity in semiconductor nano-structures in the framework of effective-mass envelope-function theory. In our calculations, the finite potential barrier and the mixing effects of heavy- and light-holes are all taken into account. Theoretical Model Throughout this paper, the units of length and energy are given in terms of the Bohr radius a ¼ h 2 =m e 2 and the effective Rydberg constant R ¼ h 2 =2m a 2 ; where m and e are the mass of a free electron and the permittivity of free space. For a hydrogenic acceptor impurity located at r ¼ðx ; y ; z Þ in a semiconductor nano-structure, the electron envelope function equation in the framework of the effective-mass approximation is H 2a jr r j þ VðrÞ w n ðrþ ¼En a w nðrþ; where 2 3 P þ R Q H h ¼ R P Q 6 Q 7 4 P R Q R P þ with P ¼ðc c 2 Þðp 2 x þ p2 y Þþðc 2c 2 Þp 2 z p ; Q ¼ i2 ffiffi 3 c3 ðp x ip y Þp z ; p R ¼ ffiffi h i 3 c2 ðp 2 x p2 y Þ 2ic 3p x p y : ðþ ð2þ ð3þ In the above equations, c,c 2, and c 3 are the Luttinger qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi parameters and jr r j¼ x x Þ 2 þðy y Þ 2 þðz z Þ 2 : The subscript n =,, 2,... correspond to the ground-, first excited-, second excited-,... states, respectively. The quantum confinement potential VðrÞ can be written in different forms for various nano-structures. In Eq., a is when there are no acceptors and when there are acceptors in the nano-structure. The binding energy of the n-order hydrogenic donor impurity state is explicitly calculated by the following equation: ¼ E E n : ð4þ We express the wave function of the impurity state as [] W h ðr h Þ ¼ 2 X pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi L x L y L z n x n y n z 6 4 a nx n y n z b nx n y n z c nx n y n z d nx n y n z 3 7 e i½ðk xþn x K x Þxþðk y þn y K y Þy þðk z þn z K z Þz ; ðþ where L x, L y, and L z are the side lengths of the unit cell in the x, y, and z directions, respectively. K x =2p /L x,k y =2 p /L y,k z =2p /L z, n x [{ m x,, m x }, n y [{ m y,, m y }, and n z [{ m z,, m z }. The plane wave number is N xyz = N x N y N z =(2m x + )(2 m y + )(2 m z + ), where m x, m y, and m z are positive integers. We take L x = L y = L z = L = W max + nm,k x = K y = K z = K =2 p/l, and N x = N y = N z = 7 in the following calculation, where W max is the maximum side length of the nano-structures. If we take larger N x, N y, and N z, the calculation precision will be increased somewhat. The matrix elements for solving the energy latent root of the impurity states can be found from Eqs. and. The
3 6 Nanoscale Res Lett (7) 2:4 6 electronic structures and binding energy in the nanostructure can be calculated from the matrix elements. Results and Discussion In the following sections, we will give some numerical results for the electronic structure and binding energy of a hydrogenic acceptor impurity in several typical GaAs/Ga x Al x As nano-structures. We take the material parameters from Ref. [2]. c = 6.98,c 2 = 2.6, c 3 = The band gaps E g C (ev) of bulk GaAs and Al.3 Ga.6 As are.9 and 2.72 ev, respectively. The valence-band offset is assumed to be 3% of the band gap difference, so V = 93. mev. The dielectric constant e is taken as 3.e. We adopt a square potential energy model in the following calculation, i.e., V(r) = inside and V(r) =V outside of the nano-structures. Figures and 2 show the first five energy levels and binding energy levels of an impurity in a QW as functions of the QW width W for an acceptor at the QW center. Figure shows that the energy levels monotonically and quickly decrease as the well width increases. It is well known that the donor binding energy has a peak as the QW width increases. However, Fig. 2 shows that the changes of the acceptor binding energies are very complex as the QW width W increases. This is because the holes have asymmetric effective masses, and there are mixing effects between heavy- and light-hole states. W Fig. 2 The binding energy levels of the first five states as functions of the QW width W for an acceptor at the QW center Figure 3 shows the binding energy levels of the first five states as functions of the donor position z for the QW width W = nm. This figure shows that the binding energies monotonically decrease as the acceptor moves away from the QW center. W = nm (mev) W Fig. The energy levels of the first five states as functions of the QW width W for an acceptor at the QW center Z Fig. 3 The binding energy levels of the first five states as functions of the donor position z for the QW width W =nm
4 Nanoscale Res Lett (7) 2:4 6 7 Fig. 4 The impurity energy levels of the first five states as functions of the square QWW side length L and the cylindrical QWW radius. for an acceptor at the QWW center L ρ Figure 4a and b shows the impurity energy levels of the first five states as functions of the square QWW side length L and the cylindrical QWW radius. for an acceptor at the QWW center. Compared with Fig., we find from Fig. 4 that the impurity energy levels decrease slowly as the QWW size increases. This is because the acceptor is confined in two directions. Figure a and b is the same as Fig. 4a and b, respectively, but are for the binding energy levels instead of the impurity energy levels. The binding energy of the acceptor in the QWW is larger than that in the QW because the quantum confinement effects in the QWW are larger than in the QW. Figure 6a and b shows the binding energy of the first five states as a function of the impurity position for a square QWW with side width L = nm and for a cylindrical QWW with radius. ¼ nm. The positions of O, A, and B in Fig. 6a are indicated in the inserted Fig. The same as Fig. 4 but for the binding energy levels of the first five states L ρ Fig. 6 The binding energy of the first five states as functions of the impurity position for the square QWW side length L = nm and the cylindrical QWW radius. ¼ nm. The positions of O, A, and B in are indicated in the inserted figure 3 O B A 3 O A B O x
5 8 Nanoscale Res Lett (7) 2:4 6 Fig. 7 The impurity energy levels as functions of the spherical QD radius R, the square QD side width W, and the cylindrical QD radius. and height Wð. ¼ WÞ (c) for an acceptor at the QD center (c) R W ρ = W Fig. 8 The same as Fig. 7 but for the binding energy levels of the first five states R W (c) ρ = W
6 Nanoscale Res Lett (7) 2:4 6 9 Fig. 9 The binding energy as a function of the impurity position with the spherical QD radius of R = nm, with the cubic QD side length W = nm, and the cylindrical QD radius. and height W equal to nm(c). The impurity positions of O, A, B and C in and (c) are indicated on the inserted QD figure, respectively O C A B Z O A B C O 4 4 A O 3 B O A B O figure. From this figure it is easy see that the binding is the weakest for the impurity located at the corner of the square QWW. Figure 7, b, and c gives the impurity energy levels as functions of the spherical QD radius R, the square QD side length W, and the cylindrical QD radius. and height W (. ¼ W) (c) for an acceptor at the QD center. Compared with Figs. and 4, we find that the impurity energy levels decrease more slowly in the QD than in the QW or the QWW. This is because the quantum confinement effect is larger in the QD than in the QW and QWW. Figure 8a, b, and c is the same as Fig. 7a, b, and c, respectively, but are for the binding energy levels. From Fig. 8, we find that there is only one binding energy for which R is greater than about 2.2 nm. The first two quantum states are degenerate and correspond to the first energy level, due to the symmetry of the spherical QD. Figure 8 shows that there is only one binding energy level when the side length is between 3 and. nm. If the side length is greater than.3 nm, the second binding energy level arises once again. Figure 8(c) shows that the first two binding energy levels diverge quickly, and the other binding energy levels disappear as the QD radius and height become larger than about 2. nm. Figure 9a, b, and c shows the binding energy as a function of the impurity position with a spherical QD radius of R = nm, with a cubic QD side length of W = nm, and a cylindrical QD radius. and height W equal to nm (c). The impurity positions of O, A, B and C in Fig. 9b and c are indicated on the inserted QD figure, respectively. As the acceptor moves away from the center, the symmetry decreases, the degeneracy is lifted, and the binding energy level splits into two branches. Figure 9c shows that there are two binding energy levels when the cylindrical QD radius. and height W equal nm. The binding energy is the largest when the impurity is at the QD center, and it is least when the impurity is at the corner. Conclusion In summary, we have calculated the electronic structures and binding energy levels of a hydrogenic acceptor impurity in 2,, and -dimensional semiconductor nanostructures in the framework of effective-mass envelopefunction theory. Our method can be widely applied in the calculation of the electronic structures and binding energy levels of a hydrogenic acceptor impurity in semiconductor nano-structures of other shapes and other semiconductor
7 6 Nanoscale Res Lett (7) 2:4 6 material systems. One only needs to specify V(r) and other material parameters. External field effects are also easily considered with this method. Acknowledgments This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 6346, 6, and 937. References. A.D. Yoffe, Adv. Phys., () 2. G. Mahieu, B. Grandidier, D. Deresmes, J. P. Nys, D. Stievenard, Ph. Ebert, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 2647 () 3. B.A. Bernevig, S.C. Zhang, Phys. Rev. B 7, 333 () 4. S. Loth, M. Wenderoth, L. Winking, R. G. Ulbrich, S. Malzer, G.H. Dohler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 6643 (6). J. Kundrotas, A. Cerskus, S. Asmontas, G. Valusis, B. Sherliker, M.P. Halsall, M.J. Steer, E. Johannessen, P. Harrison, Phys. Rev. B 72, () 6. F. Buonocore, D. Ninno, G. Iadonisi, Phys. Rev. B 62, 94 () 7. C.M. Lee, W.Y. Ruan, J.Q. Li, R.C.H. Lee, Phys. Rev. B 7, 93 () 8. V.I. Galiev, A.F. Polupanov, Semiconductors, 27, 663 (993) 9. P. Janiszewski, M. Suffczynski, Acta Phys. Pol. A 88, 7 (99). J.I. Climente, M. Korkusinski, P. Hawrylak, J. Planelles, Phys. Rev. B 7, 32 (). M.A. Cusack, P.R. Briddon, M. Jaros, Phys. Rev. B 4, R23 (996) 2. I. Vurgaftmana, J.R. Meyer, J. Appl. Phys. 89, 8 ()
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